The Institute of Chartered Secretaries Administrators of Nigeria, ICSAN, has congratulated President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on his victory at the just concluded presidential election.

It urges the President-Elect to put machinery in motion to reconcile with all aggrieved contestants to move the country forward as there is strength in unity.

Its President and Council Chairman, Taiwo Owokalade says the president-elect should consider competence, national spread and adequate youth representation in the composition of his cabinet.

Owokalade enjoins the president-elect to select those who would work with him carefully, adding that his appointees could make or mar his administration.

He appeals to political stakeholders to be careful and exercise caution in their behaviours and utterances in the interest of a peaceful transition of political power.

According to him, it is not uncommon that elections do bring dissatisfaction and grievances even in advanced democracies, but such dissatisfaction and grievances are pursued within the ambits of the law.

ICSAN President who spoke at the first 2023 Presidential Press Parley, appealed to Asiwaju Tinubu to come up with the most competent persons as members of his cabinet even as Nigerians look forward to a new administration.

Owokalade, cautioned that Tinubu must shun religious sentiments, tribal and party differences while selecting people with whom he would lead the country.

He maintained that it is on the basis of meritocracy and competence that nations progress and not on cronyism, favoritism nor party affiliation as basis for leadership.

According to him, Nigerians do not need any excuse why the incoming administration would not perform far above the government in power.

Owokalade who expected Tinubu to hit the ground running immediately after inauguration however bemoaned the level of excruciating economic hardship in the country.

He charged the president-elect to begin immediately to design economic policies that would change the ugly narratives in the country and saddening perception held in the comity of nations against Nigeria.

According to him, any policy that would push Nigerians further into poverty and sorrow must not be mentioned, saying Nigerians want policies that would reverse the negative narratives like brain drain, the ‘japa syndrome’.

He hoped that Asiwaju Tinubu would keep his word of promise of entrenching government of national unity.

Owokalade commended President Muhammadu Buhari for signing into law the constitutional amendment allowing states in the country to licence, generate, transmit, and distribute electricity.

According to him, the President signing is a constitutional amendment moving electricity from the Exclusive Legislative to the Concurrent Legislative list, meaning that states can now license, generate, transmit, and distribute electricity in the country.

He charged State governments to mobilise investors to revamp their respective state power sector following the recent presidential assent to a bill which moved the power sector from Exclusive list to Concurrent.